Strauss-Kahn challenged by the innocent women out of court

"Not guilty." Thus the former director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan said he was in the courts of New York during the hearing process that sees him charged with seven crimes linked to the alleged rape of a chambermaid Times Square. "Shame on you, shame, shouted a group of domestic workers when he arrived in court accompanied by his wife.

Strauss-Kahn: Hell in a room

The room of the Rikers Dominique Strauss-Kahn of New York has nothing to do with that three-thousand dollars of the Sofitel. Why Rikers is a jail, the real ones, with reveille at 6, lunch and dinner at 5 to 11. Nothing hour meetings and "free" day. A hell as all hell behind bars. Or at least, how can I imagine myself, I feel suffocated at the thought of not being able to look up and see the sky, whenever they felt like it.

Intervene Giovanardi

Last night as I walked to the Village, my attention was drawn to the window of Marc Jacobs, fashion designer whom I love very much but from what I keep, by force, away, especially when I walk around with my credit card. The showcase was staged as the set of one of those outdoor weddings that you see in the movies, from side to side chairs in the middle and the happy couple, two women, dressed in the spring / summer collection, of course.

Avola from New York, chasing dreams

There are days in New York when the rain seems not to have to go on forever. And with the rain, the wind that strips away the tenth umbrella of a winter that will not become spring. It should then, if it's street, finally stopping to greet an old friend, one of the few Italian restaurants in which, although rarely, I like to eat.

And so Ivan introduced me to George (beef), manager and sommelier, whose fate has been marked from birth: Avola is what it says on your passport. From handshake to the comparison on the reasons that led us to New York, the pitch is very short. Growing up "in the middle of the wine and, above all, his grandfather introduced him as a child, George decides soon to become a sommelier, but not any one good, indeed excellent, indeed" exceptional quality ".